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The Tomatometer rating – based on the published opinions of hundreds of film and
television critics – is a trusted measurement of movie and TV programming quality
for millions of moviegoers. It represents the percentage of professional critic reviews
that are positive for a given film or television show.

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Fresh

The Tomatometer is 60% or higher.

Rotten

The Tomatometer is 59% or lower.

Certified Fresh

Movies and TV shows are Certified Fresh with a steady Tomatometer of 75% or
higher after a set amount of reviews (80 for wide-release movies, 40 for
limited-release movies, 20 for TV shows), including 5 reviews from Top Critics.

Whatever the meaning of "the greater good" in a post-Sept. 11 world, "Citizenfour" posits - and it's hard to argue otherwise - that the right to privacy is an essential component of it.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

The ambiguous line it walks between them may prove frustrating to some. But anyone who prefers their film fare to be anything but off the rack should prepare to be dazzled.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

There is a "Raging Bull" physicality to Teller's performance, along with a touch of Asperger syndrome, and Simmons brings a "The Great Santini" psychological intensity unlike anything in his nice-guy insurance commercials.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

It holds a comic lens up to the love-hate relationship between the races in all its contradictions. And it is a portrait of post-racial America as the symbiotic clashing of opposite polarities.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

However readers may have seen the story in their minds - the unshaven and rumpled Affleck is about a decade older than I imagined, but effectively seedy - Fincher crafts its scenes of a broken marriage into a convincing mosaic.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

It is another flawed and meandering mini-masterpiece from a visionary filmmaker whose febrile and fertile imagination never met a narrative it can't mangle into incoherence.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

From the first scene, where the pair spoon in a crowded double bed and go about their morning ablutions, the actors convincingly communicate the familiarity of longtime companions.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

"Venus in Fur," the disturbing and provocative Roman Polanski film of David Ives' Broadway play, portrays a power struggle between the object of obsession and the eye of the beholder.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

D'Souza asks softball questions of those he agrees with ("What is your American dream?" he asks U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz) and leading questions of others, and his narration is peppered with generalities, platitudes and truisms.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

It is unlikely to change any hearts or minds in our perpetually and permanently polarized times, but the film has the courage of its convictions, which likely limits appeal to a like-minded audience.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

Its "Downton Abbey" settings, dresses like tiered and frosted wedding cakes, romance-novel décolletage, men in powdered wigs and elaborate 18th-century courtship rituals may be the stuff of Jane Austen, but the story is decidedly not.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT

Favreau returns to his "Swingers"-style indie film roots for an emotionally nourishing and music-filled labor of love about food, family and a man's quest to restore and refresh his reputation with both.&dash; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - EDIT